Cool stuff! New Fujifilm X-Pro1
I know you know that Fujifilm announced a new auto-focus rangefinder camera with interchangeable lens at CES 2012. Poor man’s Leica M9-P? Definitely! But that’s a good thing! I want one!
Credit rating agencies go after euro
In 2004, PM Karamanlis clearly had a choice before he went on discrediting Greece right after assuming office. Clearly he shouldn’t have done that as nothing good came out of it.
Nevertheless, the death blow was dealt by PM Papandreou in 2009 while unveiling the catastrophic results of the polices of his predecessor effectively discrediting the country once more. I’m not sure if he had a choice at this point or not.
One thing is clear: in 2004 Greece was at its best shape ever and looking at a better future. It had also just elected a new government that claimed to “re-institute the state” and make extensive reforms. It took just one incompetent PM and five senseless years of inaction, corruption and populism to bring the country to its knees by 2009.
On the App Store model
On second thoughts, I don’t like the “App Store” model.
I didn’t like it since it started actually, but by now I’ve had it. Here is why: The “App Store” is a Trojan horse. It’s a way of hijacking the web. It’s a man in the middle attack. It’s evil. Who needs it?
It is supposed to help apps surface; it’s supposed to foster development of new apps; right? 300.000 apps in iTunes AppStore? You can’t surface in that pile; so it’s useless for that.
I’m not only referring to the Apple App Store. I’m referring to the “App Store” concept, be it Apple’s, Google’s, Microsoft’s or anyone’s.
Unless they make “App Stores” useful at least for the end user, I think we should try to stop them. I really wonder why Microsoft tries to ride the same wagon as Apple and Google. Windows Phone Marketplace should become optional. Period.
Ladies & gentlemen, in case you missed it, we landed.
With the recent release of IE9 and FF4, all browsers out there are now very good browsers. It’s too early to tell which one is going to be my favorite. IE9 is sleek and fast. FF4 looks great (for the first time ever). Opera is also very good (although I never felt like switching to Opera). Safari is… well… Apple (it simply works but there is no real need for it).
I think FF4 is going to be my main browser at work until we finally switch to Windows 7 (and of course IE9). For the moment I’m not ready to switch away from Chrome though. I have all my bookmarks there and everything is in sync between all my computers so it’s not going to be easy to move out of Chrome for my casual web surfing. There is not much benefit either. That said, IE9’s pinned sites are just brilliant. I already pinned my banks and other sensitive sites and will probably only use IE9 from now on for accessing them.
Anyway. The point is: for the first time in web’s history, all browsers are great browsers. Way to go…
I like the illustration idea on this article (although the photo is not so great):
The Media Industry’s Biggest Fear: How Do We Know Next Year Apple Won’t Be Taking 50%?
Just another 4 months after crossing the 100.000 active walls milestone, RSS Graffiti is doubling in size again: 200.000 Facebook Walls are now actively using RSS Graffiti to publish their updates to Facebook.
You got to see the whole of this video. I paused to re-blog this at the point he was talking about G.W. Bush re-election and how bad design can affect lives. Thanks to Andrey for sharing this.
Listen to the design genius talk about new visual languages, design processes, the analogies of music and typography, and why we need better client culture.
On Nokia + Microsoft partnership
- People don’t buy Nokia phones to get Symbian; they buy them because they are made by Nokia. Nokia has loyal customers. Far more than Apple has.
- People don’t buy iPhones because they are better; they buy them because they are cool gadgets and make a status statement; (plus they run all the cool stuff).
- People don’t buy Android phones because they are better either; they buy them because they just don’t like Apple more than they hate following the crowd.
- People don’t buy Windows Phones because they are made by Microsoft; they buy them because they know exactly what they want.
Ljusa idéer på natten | Näringslivsnyheter | SvD
SvD reports on Stockholm Nightowls. This must be the first (albeit indirect) mention of RSS Graffiti in the Swedish press.
